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Fiction

Refusal to concede defeat

Green House by Dorothy Hewett

by Andrew Taylor
June 1980, no. 21

Green House by Dorothy Hewett

Big Smoke Books, $8.50pb, 104 pp

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In a talk she gave recently at Writers’ Week in Adelaide, Dorothy Hewett praised Gwen Harwood as:

Working in isolation as the woman hero, charring like a cartographer the uneasy, shifting, violent, broken world of Australian women and finally, in the teeth of all opposition. proclaiming the right to love and be a hero.

 


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Green House by Dorothy Hewett

Big Smoke Books, $8.50pb, 104 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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